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• Temperatures on the moon vary from 273 degrees F (134 C) at the hottest time of the day to -244 degrees F (-153C) at night. A day on the moon from sunrise to sunrise is about 708 hours. It rotates on its axis at a speed of about 10 mph (16 km/hr). Compare this with Earth, which rotates at about 1,000 mph (1,609 km/hr). Yet both the moon and Earth complete their orbit in about the same amount of time.

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THE MOON (continued): • The average speed at which the moon orbits the Earth is 2,287 mph (3,680 km/hr.)

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7. What was the theme song of the 1982 film “An Officer and a Gentleman”?

8. Who was the oldest U.S. President elected office?

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2. How many active volcanoes are on the moon?

3. What name is given to the full moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox?

4. What’s the term for a second full moon in a single solar calendar month?

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THE MOON (continued): • The world first saw close-up TV pictures of the moon’s surface in 1964 when images were sent back

by Ranger 7, the first U.S. space probe.

• In May, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stated his goal in an address to Congress of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth” by the end of the 1960s. The first manned spacecraft to the moon was Apollo 8 in 1968, when Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders circled the moon 10 times before heading back to Earth.

• The Apollo 11 crew made history in July, 1969 when they made the first landing. On July 20, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon.

There are very few Americans unfamiliar with his famous words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Armstrong later reported that what he actually said was, “that’s one small step for a man…” The crew spent 21 hours and 36 minutes on the surface, with 2 hours and 36 minutes outside the craft, walking on the surface. The footprints of the Apollo 11 crew astronauts will remain for thousands of years, considering there is no wind or adverse weather to disturb them.

• The Apollo 11 crew collected lunar rocks weighing 842 lbs. (382 kg.).

• A total of 12 men have walked on the moon. No one has done so since December, 1972 when Eugene Cernan of the final manned mission to the moon, Apollo 17, became the last man to set foot on the lunar surface. Apollo 17 was the sixth landing of humans on the moon.

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• If we didn’t have the moon, the oceans would have no tides. Tides rise because of the pull of the moon’s gravity. This gravity is strongest on the side of Earth nearest the moon, and it pulls up the water slightly, which is high tide.

On the side of Earth farthest from the moon, the gravity is at its weakest, and the water moves a little away from the moon.

• What does it take the create an eclipse? These phenomena occur only when the sun, Earth, and moon are all in a straight line and one blocks the light from another. The official term for this configuration of three celestial bodies is syzygy. A solar eclipse will occur during a new moon, when the moon is between the sun and Earth and blocks the sunlight. A lunar eclipse will occur at the time of a full moon, when Earth is between the sun and the moon, and blocks the sun’s light that would normally light up the moon.

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• Born into humble beginnings, Victoria’s parents ran a traveling medicine show, where her mother was a spiritualist and her father, the typical “snake oil salesman.” Victoria and her sister Tennie worked as clairvoyants and fortune tellers in the show. At age 14, Victoria contracted a serious illness and her parents consulted a 28-year-old doctor, Channing Woodhull, who would become Victoria’s husband just two months past her 15th birthday.

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• In 1872, nearly 50 years before women had the right to vote, Victoria became the first female candidate for U.S. President, nominated by the Equal Rights Party. The Party chose former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass as her running mate, although he never acknowledged the nomination. Victoria’s platform included an eight-hour workday, a graduated income tax, social welfare programs, and women’s rights. As a divorced woman, she advocated new divorce laws that gave women the right to leave unbearable marriages. In her words, “I have an inalienable constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can, to change that love every day if I please!”

• Just days before the Presidential election, Woodhull, her husband, and her sister were arrested on obscenity charges for running an exposé on popular Brooklyn preacher Henry Ward Beecher. Victoria spent election day in jail, and although she was acquitted of all charges, her reputation was destroyed and her businesses went bankrupt.

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HAM IT UP! (continued): • We see his face nearly every day on the U.S. DEERE. bill, JOHN ten-dollar butDEERE. who was(continued): Alexander Ham• ilton?

It wasOne whileofliving in Illinois that John noAmerica’s founding fathers, ticed the problems farmers when Hamilton graduatedthat from what faced is now Coattempting to till soil.

Because the area had lumbia University, served in the Revolutionformerly been woodland, the soil was rich ary War, was elected to the Continental Conwith hummus, which clumped and clung to gress, practiced law, and founded the Bank of the blades of the plows farmers were accusNew York.

He isWhile commemorated on our circurtomed to using. repairing a broken rency because he was the first U.S. Secretary cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He ofemployed the Treasury, andskills was instrumental eshis smith to fashion the in steel tablishing the U.S. Mint.

In 1804, after Hamblade into the shape of a plow. He affixed ilton made derogatory Vice two wooden spokes, thenremarks hitched about the device President Aaron Burr, Burr claimed his honor to a horse.

It plowed the heavy Illinois soil likebeen a charm.

In fact, a farmer who happened had attacked, and challenged Hamilton observing theHamilton test run immediately totoabe duel.

Burr shot in the lowerput abin an order for his own John Deere plow. domen, mortally wounding him, and Hamildied the next day.gave Ironically, dueling • ton In short order, Deere up his the blacksmith site, Hudson at Weehawken, shopalong and the focused on River making plows. The company grew andsite added many emNew Jersey, wassteadily the same where Hamilployees.

In the late 1840s, John relocated the ton’s eldest son had been killed in a duel three entireearlier. operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed years of his own lack of education, John sent his • The 25 species hamsters in size children to the of state’s finestrange schools.

Onefrom of 13.4 inches (34 cm) long to dwarf hamsters his proudest days occurred when son Charles measuring inches (5.5 long.from The Bell’s Syrian earned the 2equivalent of cm) an MBA species has the shortest gestation period of Commercial College in Chicago. any placental mammal at only 16 to 18 days, • With his son Charles managing the company, yet they’ve to have litters ofin20 John found been time known to pursue philanthropic pups!

A hamster’s eyesight very poor and it terests.

He co-founded bothisthe First Nationrelies on scent to find its way. al Bank and the First Congregational Church.

He was mayor Moline in • That tinyelected row ofthe hooks thatofconnects the1873, front where one of his – the and back wings of first a beeactions is known as replacea hamument of the city’s open isdrains withhook-like a sewer lus.

A human’s hamulus a similar pipe system – saved countless lives by apparatus on our inner ear’s cochlea. reducing the spread of disease.

• Are you clumsy, awkward, butterfingered, • The original John Deere logo, registered in or lacking dexterity? Then you’re said to be 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afriham-fisted. ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was re-

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